שִׁילֹה
Shîylôh · shee-lo'
Shiloh, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or שִׁלֹה; or שִׁילוֹ; or שִׁלוֹ; from the same as H7886 (שִׁילֹה);
Shiloh, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Shiloh.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the hand that works › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the hand that works of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שִׁילֹה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
32 occurrences · 32 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in shiloh11 · 34%
- to shiloh5 · 16%
- at shiloh3 · 9%
- of shiloh3 · 9%
- out of shiloh2 · 6%
- for them in shiloh1 · 3%
- unto them at shiloh1 · 3%
- was in shiloh1 · 3%
- thee to shiloh1 · 3%
- which was in shiloh1 · 3%
- like shiloh1 · 3%
- shall be like shiloh1 · 3%
- from shiloh1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.